Spectrum Vates - Pupille d’alabastro

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Handwritten lyrics, lyrical images, zero marketing. This is how Spectrum Vates is building a place for himself outside the logic of the market. And perhaps, precisely for this reason, within music. No shortcuts, only choices.

There's something offbeat, almost stubborn, in Spectrum Vates' writing. From his first single "Prosopagnosia," passing through his debut album "EsseVu" and the declaration of identity "Non sono Lucio Battisti" (I am not Lucio Battisti), the rapper from Arezzo has built a path outside the mechanisms of hype, choosing words and sounds that are not consumed in 15 seconds but remain beyond and outside of time. With his new single "Pupille d’alabastro" (Alabaster Pupils) (PaKo Music Records/Believe), that direction becomes even clearer: a track that tells of love as a daily choice, not as a spark for display.

In a landscape where rap is increasingly packaging – hits designed for the algorithm, verses adapted to trends – Spectrum Vates makes a clear choice: to write as if every verse were destined to last. Not chasing the moment, but building meaning. And in an era where identity is increasingly content to be distributed, not a language to be cultivated, Spectrum Vates seems to want to bring rap back to its root: a form of expression before it is a performance. While the music market increasingly bends to the logic of reels, instant virality, and verses lasting a handful of seconds, Spectrum Vates continues to write thinking of those who remain. Not those who scroll.

Born in 1999, Tuscan, few filters and no shortcuts, Spectrum Vates – born Giacomo Cassarà – has chosen to side with words. Not as an ornament, but as a necessity. "Pupille d’alabastro" is yet another proof of a path that aims for substance and discards special effects. After years spent in competitive sports, he chooses to stop. And to write. First, the collection of poems Spectrum Interior, in 2022. Then the first independent, essential, unfiltered rap releases. It is there that his voice takes shape: a "conscious emotional rap" as he likes to define it, which does not chase formulas, but seeks a true connection, a meeting point with the listener. He writes as if he were looking for something. Or perhaps as if he wanted to protect what he has found. The rest he tells with a tattoo, engraved on his arm and on the skin of his songs: Caduto in un quadro di sogni sospinto. Coraggio è il colore con cui l’ho dipinto. (Fallen into a painting of dreams, driven. Courage is the color with which I painted it.)

And within "Pupille d’alabastro" all of this returns: the attention to the word, the fidelity to oneself, the gaze that knows how to stop before speaking. «Noi siamo due cuori rotti al centro e poi aggiustati, giochiamo a far la guerra senza armi e carri armati» (We are two hearts broken in the center and then mended, we play at war without weapons and tanks): in a scene crowded with clichés, this is a line that has the courage to remain suspended. A declaration of humanity that makes fragility a language. And poetry, a place.

The title, "Pupille d’alabastro," suggests a gaze that is not forgotten, that remains imprinted even when the eyes are closed: alabaster recalls and synthesizes delicacy and resistance, light and opacity, becoming the perfect metaphor for a love that does not need to be exhibited to last.

The balance between writing and sound is evident and calibrated: Diego Fabbri's piano accompanies without ever intruding, leaving the central role to the lyrics. The mixing and mastering, handled by Atomic, underline this aesthetic choice, making every word clear, breathed, measured. It is a work that moves with discretion, but with a clear direction.

«I have always thought that certain encounters are like collisions between distant galaxies. You cannot predict them, but when they happen, they change the trajectory of everything - says Spectrum Vates -. This piece was not born to explain love, but to return its weight. That silence that is created when two gazes lock for the first time, and everything else fades away.»

Once again, Spectrum Vates demonstrates that you can make rap without chasing trends, and that you can talk about love without falling into rhetoric. He writes as if he were speaking only to those who truly listen. And in a society where speed is the rule, choosing slowness becomes a radical act.

But it's not just a matter of musical style. In "Pupille d’alabastro," as in the entire universe of Spectrum Vates, time is never a background: it is living matter, an implicit theme, a narrative companion. There is a precise idea behind every verse: that words need time to settle. That rap can still afford to slow down. It is no coincidence that every verse seems sculpted, carefully placed, as if writing were a craft, and not a process to be automated. Every pause, every wait in the song, is part of the meaning. There is no urgency to fill, but a need to say.

Also for this reason, "Pupille d’alabastro" is not a single that aims for the peak, but for the track. It does not seek virality: it seeks those who listen. It does not ask "how much will it play?", but "how much will it remain?". And in this remaining lies all the strength of the project: a steady gaze in a world that flows quickly, too quickly. A voice that does not impose itself, but makes itself heard. A name that, without raising its voice, is finding its place. With consistency, delicacy, and determination. In a system that rewards speed, his slowness is an almost political gesture. In a landscape where time is noise, his music chooses silence. And makes it necessary.

Biography.

Spectrum Vates, pseudonym of Giacomo Cassará, is an Italian rapper born in Arezzo on October 28, 1999. Raised in the flourishing era of underground rap and mainstream pop, he experienced significant influences from the musical world around him. The continuous search for new paths to undertake and the end of a competitive career in sports led him to focus first on writing, with the drafting of the poetry collection Spectrum Interior in 2023, and subsequently on the release of his first independent rap singles. In November 2024, he released his debut album "EsseVu." As he himself stated, "EsseVu" is the summary of his soul tormented by a thousand vicissitudes, a cathartic album that represented a reckoning with himself, allowing him to bring order to the inner chaos from which he started. Through self-produced singles and collaborations with producers and friends, he continues his journey, identifying his musical style as "Conscious emotional rap," a genre aimed at making the listener reflect on the themes and feelings addressed in the lyrics, whether negative or positive, without filters or simplifications. The life motto that drives him to make music and face every challenge is tattooed on his arm: Caduto in un quadro di sogni sospinto. Coraggio è il colore con cui l'ho dipinto. (Fallen into a painting of dreams, driven. Courage is the color with which I painted it.)